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And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

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The king

2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea's reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 19:11
Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?
1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.
Isaiah 7:8
For Syria's leader is Damascus, and the leader of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation.
Isaiah 8:4
for before the child knows how to cry out, 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."
Isaiah 9:9
All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,
Isaiah 10:5
Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
Isaiah 37:12
Were the nations whom my predecessors destroyed -- the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar -- rescued by their gods?
Hosea 8:8
Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.
Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the Lord's land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.
Amos 5:1
Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:
Acts 7:43
But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.'

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Ezekiel 23:9
Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

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